The Console scandal is what happens when the State outsources the tricky work, writes Brendan O'Connor

Of course, it's all obvious now. I even started remembering myself how I found something a bit off about Paul Kelly when I met him. Deeply sincere-seeming, but also seeming to be enjoying it all a bit too much, this little dapper, tanned man. He didn't seem overly charismatic, but he had a great welcome for himself, and there was something priesty about him. It is also telling that a priest and a doctor, two of the professions we used to question the least, were the two professions that Paul Kelly impersonated.

Of course, it's all obvious now. I even started remembering myself how I found something a bit off about Paul Kelly when I met him. Deeply sincere-seeming, but also seeming to be enjoying it all a bit too much, this little dapper, tanned man. He didn't seem overly charismatic, but he had a great welcome for himself, and there was something priesty about him. It is also telling that a priest and a doctor, two of the professions we used to question the least, were the two professions that Paul Kelly impersonated.

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Of course, it's all obvious now. I even started remembering myself how I found something a bit off about Paul Kelly when I met him. Deeply sincere-seeming, but also seeming to be enjoying it all a bit too much, this little dapper, tanned man. He didn't seem overly charismatic, but he had a great welcome for himself, and there was something priesty about him. It is also telling that a priest and a doctor, two of the professions we used to question the least, were the two professions that Paul Kelly impersonated.